impassivity
nounEtymology From impassive + -ity.
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Usually The state of being impassive.
- He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature. It struck me that he might look natural on a stage, but was strangely out of place in real life.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 10:
- [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
- Related terms
- passivity, passive, impatience